Jpowdeg-box



'V. L. BEAUCHAMP.

.POWDER BOX.

APPLICATION FILED 1AN.13, um.

Patented May 13, 1919.

K drawings, forming a part thereof.

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vIBGrL L. BnAUcHAMr, or EvnNs'roN, ILLINOIS.

' POWDER-BOX.

Specication of Letters Patent.

. Patented May '13, 1919.

Application mec January 1s, 1919. serial No. 270,843.

om, a citizen of the United States, and' resident of Evanston, county of Cook, and State of illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Powder-Boxes, of which the following is a specication, and which are illustrated in the accompanying rl`he invention relates to a toilet article, to-witz-a box vfor containing face powder and the like, adaptedA to be carried by the user and provided with means for conveniently discharging the 'contents in small quantities, and for preventing its escape exce t when required for use.

he invention consists in a box-having a foraminous wall, a foraminous plate oscillatably secured against the inner surface of such wall,the openings in the plate being normally out of register with the openings in the walL-and means exterior of the box for contro t the movement of the plate.

ln the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the box;

Figs. 2 and 3 are plan views of the box with the cover removed, the movable parts .being shown in different positions; and

Fig. l is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

The box, generally designated by the numeral 10, is preferably circular in form and comparatively shallow, and is provided with a cover 11 which lits upon the body poption 12 and is preferably in threaded engagement therewith, as shown in Fig. 4. The cover may conveniently carry a mirror 13.

The bottom 14 of the box is provided with a number of small perforations, as f 15, through which powder may beA discharged at the will of the user. These perforations are normally closed by a plate 16, which,

when the box is circular, as shown, fits snugly but slidablywithin its vertical walls. rlhe plate'lf isprovided with a series of apertures, as 17, preferably of the same size as the apertures 15 in the bottom, and which, When in register with the latter apertures, permit the escape of the powder. When the apertures in the plate 16 are out of register with the apertures in the bottom of the box the escape of powder is prevented.

rllhe oscillation of the plate 16 is accomplished by means of cams 18, 19, formed in a plate 20 hxed to a push rod 21, which extends through a side wall of the box, its inner end playing in a tube 22, secured to the 4innersurface of the'side wall at the o posite side of the box. The outer end o the rod 21 is provided with a push button 23. The rod is normally held in its outer or withdrawn position by means of a spring 24, here shown as helical in form and as being coiled about the tube 22, and reacting be-v tween the side wall of the box andan abutment 25 secured to the rod 21.

The cams 18, 19, are formed by-slotting the plate 20 obliquely to the axis of the rod 21. W1th these cams there coperates a stud sov 26, fixed in the plate 16 and projecting into the cam slot.' Inward movement of the rod y 2l compresses the spring 24 and causes a turning movement of the plate 16 by the action of the cam 18 non the stud 26. This movement may be su cient to either bring the apertures 17 into exact registry with the apertures 15 in the wall of the box, or carry them past. the latter apertures. Pressure upon the rod being released, the spring restores the plate 16 to its normal position by the action of the cam 19 upon the stud 26.

Preferably a stud 27, fixed in the plate 16 at the opposite side of the rod 21 from the stud 26, coperates with an inclined or cammed margin 28 of the plate 2O for the purpose of rendering the action smoother, and this stud also acts as a `limiting stop by its contact with the rod 21 when the latter is pressed inwardly to the position shown in Fig. 3, thereby preventing possible disengagement of the stud 26 from the slot within the plate 20. While an operative and preferred form of construction is shown and described, various changes of detail may be made without departing from its scope.

I claim as my invention- .1. A powder box having a foraminous wall, an oscillatable foraminous plate in contact with the named wall, means'for normally positioningthe plate to close the openings inthe wall, and a cam operable from Without the box for shifting the plate to bring its apertures into register with the apertures of the foraminous wall.

2. A round powder box having its bottom perforated, a circular erforated plate ftting within the box anclin contact with the bottom of the box, a cam acting on the plate to impart thereto an oscillatory movement, a spring urging the to one position, and

a, push rod for moving the cam in opposition to the spring.

l3. A round powder box having a foraminous bottom, a oireular foraminous plate itting within the box and in contact with the bottom thereof, a, push rod extending through a side Wall of the box, a spring urging the rod outward, a plate carried by the rod and having a cam slot oblique to the axis thereof, and a stud carried by the cir- 10 cular plate and entering the cam slot.

` VIRGIL L. BEAUCHAMP. 

